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I didn’t know that this thread existed until @inconsistantpointed me in this direction,
So, shamelessly taken from my Show us your modern daily shite thread,
is my now regrettably sold Ford Fiesta ST150, pictured with one of my mates blue ST150. 
 
 

This is the setting sun giving long shadows on the A19 between Middlesbrough and Sunderland at 5:30pm on the 30th September 2012.

Another moon shot. This was shot at midnight using a long exposure, hence why the clouds are streaking across the sky. It was taken in the village of Frant in 1987.

Moon Rise September 1985, Ashdown Forest. This is the only new car I have ever purchased, a Mini Ritz.

Me neither.
Scan from old photo taken at Fistral Beach at the end of the first day of the first ever Run to the Sun. I think it was May 1988.

 

And one from me too after being made aware of it. 

I didn’t know that this thread existed until @inconsistantpointed me in this direction,
So, shamelessly taken from my Show us your modern daily shite thread,
is my now regrettably sold Ford Fiesta ST150, pictured with one of my mates blue ST150. 
 
 

I didn’t know that this thread existed until @inconsistantpointed me in this direction,
So, shamelessly taken from my Show us your modern daily shite thread,
is my now regrettably sold Ford Fiesta ST150, pictured with one of my mates blue ST150. 
 
 

I didn’t know that this thread existed until @inconsistantpointed me in this direction,
So, shamelessly taken from my Show us your modern daily shite thread,
is my now regrettably sold Ford Fiesta ST150, pictured with one of my mates blue ST150. 
 
 

You'll be stuck with that until Katie Price gets her driving licence back...  

After the Astra was crashed, I fancied a Saab 95 Aero to replace it. I was keeping an eye out for the right one when the Astra's clutch started to slip. I nursed it for a bit but then I was offered something very different in November 2018. A Mercedes ML270 CDI and it would cost me £350. The catch will be apparent from the pictures.

 
The rust has progressed quite significantly since then, but I slow it down with rust converter. This is the car that gave me my handle on this site and it is one of my favourites I've ever owned. I thought I'd drive it for a couple of months and scrap it because it was probably screwed, but it turned out to be very sound with an interior in near-perfect condition and the rust really is cosmetic. So then I thought I'd keep it as a tow car and get something else, but really I just drive it every day. A great, reliable car that has cost me bugger all in parts (a couple of hundred in total) over nearly 2.5 years and 40k miles. Looks like a bag of shit but it's just very good at being a comfortable, reliable and good car. It's even ok on diesel. It has towed car trailers across Europe and I still like it now. I spend money only on what it needs. It now looks a bit tougher with a set of Yokohama Geolandar GO15s to replace the rubbish Chinese ditchfinders it came with. It does a lot of towing and offroad and it's just mighty impressive, other than the obvious rust

You might find the Red rear VW badge is just a sticker infill on the original boot badge. Pick an edge up with something picky/sharp and peel it off

This has been sitting on one of my mates driveway for at least 15 years now, his Dad will not sell it (I have tried & tried to buy this)  the mileage is genuine also.
 
it’s looking worse for wear now (as you will be able to see)
 

dodge commando 100 series Restoration project | eBay
I reckon you could have great fun seeing how long you could swerve VOSA  driving this. Quick lick of paint, sack the 750x16s off and fit some 8.5x17.5s and off you go.

Leyland freighter horsebox vintage lorry daf not 7.5 ton | eBay

Here is the one I bought straight out of service in January 2020. 
A Tx1 with the old 2.7 Nissan lump.
It had done a nice low mileage of 419,366 miles.
It still had the meter in it. 
me & a mate brought it back from Edinburgh.
These are genuinely superb things & if anyone who is tempted to get one, I highly recommend you do. 
 
Superb old things, I am tempted to get another one.

Air Con, cloth seats and fake wood.

Here is the one I bought straight out of service in January 2020. 
A Tx1 with the old 2.7 Nissan lump.
It had done a nice low mileage of 419,366 miles.
It still had the meter in it. 
me & a mate brought it back from Edinburgh.
These are genuinely superb things & if anyone who is tempted to get one, I highly recommend you do. 
 
Superb old things, I am tempted to get another one.

Here is the one I bought straight out of service in January 2020. 
A Tx1 with the old 2.7 Nissan lump.
It had done a nice low mileage of 419,366 miles.
It still had the meter in it. 
me & a mate brought it back from Edinburgh.
These are genuinely superb things & if anyone who is tempted to get one, I highly recommend you do. 
 
Superb old things, I am tempted to get another one.

Apologies in that case. I (wrongly as you have pointed out now) just thought it would be relatively straightforward to get normal insurance for the LTi TX vehicles.
 I do remember when I had the old TX1, I never had any problem or issues with my insurance company after I added it to my then insurance policy. 
it may have been the same as what you have just explained back in January 2020, with regards to it being nigh on impossible to get insurance for it on a normal standard insurance policy. However I don’t know as I had a trader’s policy back then.
Thank you for sharing & pointing that out, as I have a little itch for another one of these, but after reading your post, I’m not so sure now. 

It's not. At least not now, in 2024, where even a sticker out of place in the ever tightening world of insurance = a firm NOPE from the run of the mill places.
Vast, vast majority of places will not touch a TX, Has to be specialist decommissioned cab insurance. I don't know for sure when this became a thing, because i'm absolutely sure you could stick one on a normal car policy a few years back, There's a couple of cabbies that live either end of my street that have had them up for sale when they've taken them out of service, and i'm 99.9% certain i've looked at them back then and was getting quotes fairly easy. Seem to remember they were fairly pricey for what they are, but certainly not out of the realms of realism either.
And the really weird thing is, i've looked at E7's before (the older spec Citroen Dispatch/Peugeot boxer ones based on the old Synergies etc) and could get insurance on them really easily and fairly cheaply through mainstream insurers (From memory, they wanted about £500 fully Comp around July 2023). They just treated them like the MPV version. Even though running the plate for the quote would come back as 'Peugeot E7'.
I just looked what it would be for one the other day (after reading the trouble LBF had trying to find anyone who would insure a TX4), and the identical car i tried to get insured on before and could with next to no bother, not a single insurer would touch now with a bargepole. Not even 'nope, but here's a stupid price to ensure you don't do it' price, not a single quote.

Cab had its first FTP this morning. Temp gauges on the cars were showing -8°, cab refused to splutter into life. It was just about ready to go when i had sapped every CCA from the battery. Quick jump start from the Dacia and power was restored. Ran like a dream for the rest of the day. Ok, it took a good hour and a half to get up to temperature, but at least it was back up and running.....tomorrow morn to be colder again....jump leads are sitting waiting

They are brilliant in their own special way. Nothing else feels or drives like them. 
Who did you manage to insure it with. Asking for a friend* 🤣

Gold spec. Quite rare.